Senior NoSQL Database Administrator (DBA III) - Remote

Overview

LivePerson is growing fast, and we want our technology to keep up. We’ve formed a team that’s focused on evolving our database and data storage systems and how they’re used by application teams so we can scale faster than ever before. We’re seeking a Senior Database Engineer to help define how we accomplish this goal, and to help us achieve it.

In Short

• Understand the design and architecture of new highly-available and fault-tolerant cloud-based databases, as well as how we redesign existing systems
• Participate and collaborate with the team taking ownership of the most intellectually-demanding parts of solutions and deliver bar-raising solutions
• Investigate hard-to-pin-down problems across a complex and distributed architecture so you can explain root causes and propose solutions
• Make a case for how we stay ahead of capacity issues and limit the blast radius of issues when a cluster is stressed
• Work with database clients to improve their use of databases (e.g. optimize queries, evolve data models)
• Advocate for solutions that help teams launch quality software without compromising delivery speed
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
• Participate in 24*7 oncall rotations to support production issues.
• Go above and beyond to solve complex problems in database engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building successful production database systems handling terabytes of data.
• Experience configuring & Managing any two of the following database systems at scale: Cassandra, Couchbase, Redis or MongoDB.
• Highly accountable and responsible for projects successful execution.
• Experience managing database systems in a hybrid cloud (on-prem & public cloud)
• Familiarity creating architectures that scale with volume and are fault-tolerant
• Experience with distributed persistent systems & asynchronous messaging
• Experience tuning distributed systems to improve their performance under increasing volumes of traffic
• Proven ability to work in a fully remote environment with people across the globe
• Relevant certifications are a plus (e.g AWS Certification, Google Cloud Platform Certification)
• Able to create documentation, work on changes, incidents and jira tickets.
• Experienced in automation framework using ansible, terraform, git pipelines.
• Able to learn and quickly adapt to new technologies.

Benefits

• Health: Medical, Dental and Vision
• Time away: Vacation and holidays
• Equal opportunity employer